Drawings: Views of unwanted components are added to my single component drawings

[rex.landis]

I have a model with roughly 100 components. I have made drawings of a few of the components. When I update the drawings to reflect the current state of the model, components that I have not included in the drawing are sometimes selected in the drawing browser. I have to manually turn these selections off.

This is very annoying at best and could lead to unreadable drawings if I don't notice it and turn off the unwanted components.

I haven't yet figured out what leads to this, but it doesn't alway happen. I'm sure there's a pattern to it.

Is this a known bug? Is there a way to lock a drawing so that components aren't added?

[masa.minohara]

Hi @rex.landis,

Personally I'm not aware of an issue like that but I'd like to investigate it. Could you share a public link to the drawing that you had an issue with?  Also, a screenshot of unwanted components would be helpful as well.

I look forward to hearing from you.

[rex.landis]

I have done some experimenting and have found out one way to make the problem happen.  

I open a drawing and notice that I want to change something in the model, like a hole size. I go to the model and change the hole size. Sometimes, this moves the timeline marker back in time to when the hole was created and leaves it there (call this timeline point A). I might not notice, and I save the model. Then I go to the drawing and click on the yellow ! icon to update my drawing. Later, I go back to the model and realize that the timeline is not at the end and move the timeline marker to the end (timeline point B) and save the model again. Now, if I go back to my drawing and update it (yellow ! icon again), all components created between timeline point A and B are activated in my drawing.

[rex.landis]

I've made a screencast demonstration.

[masa.minohara]

Thank you for the screencast! I am not sure if this is a bug but it seems like Fusion doesn't remember which components are supposed to show up once they are removed from drawing when editing a model. I have reported this to the development team for further investigation. (the ticket ID is FDWG-9421 just for your reference) 

Thank you for reporting the issue!

[masa.minohara · Accepted solution]

Hi @rex.landis,

I just heard back from the development and learnt that this is a known issue but they are unable to fix it because of technical challenges at the moment. 

For now, could you try right-clicking in the browser and selecting  "Suppressing All Except Selected" as a workaround?

[phill_scott]

Have the 'technical challenges' been overcome yet?

I have a model of hundreds of components, and I only want drawings of the components I select via bounding box.  When the drawing opens, the entire set of components is drawn.  The only way around this is to select parts individually rather than with a bounding box.  This isn't a good solution for anything other than extremely simple assemblies.

[euclidmandd]

I realize there probably isn't a any progress, but I'd like to reiterate how frustrating this is with large drawing sets.  I've got a 45 page drawing that takes about a half hour to correct each time this happens.

[Anonymous]

I too find this issue a challenge, as many dimensional references are lost when drawings are updated and a model has been modified. With a complex design with many components, this has consumed many hours of rework of drawings. I actually save pdf copies, to compare and re-check previously completed/approved drawings (hours lost) in the event up an "update corruption." The preferred function would be that if a single component was chosen for a drawing, that changes to the referenced model (not including the drawing referenced component/sub-component), or additions of other modeled components would not corrupt the single component reference drawing. In other words, don't automatically update the drawing with irrelevant model changes, and only include model changes of the chosen referenced component. Thanks!